Journal Links

 

Although there are many journals within the different specialties that cover some health professions education topics, there is also a growing body of journals dedicated solely to health professions education topics. An all inclusive list would be quite difficult to generate, however here is a list of some of the major journals with their associated WebPages:

Note: To find out if we have full-text access to them via UWO, go to: http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/clinicaloutreach/ and type the name of the journal in the title search box.

Academic Medicine:
http://www.academicmedicine.org/

Advances in Health Sciences Education. Theory and Practice:
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1382-4996

BMC Medical Education:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmededuc/

Education for Health. Change in learning and practice:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13576283.html

Educating for Primary Care:
http://www.radcliffe-oxford.com/journals/J02_Education_for_Primary_Care/default.htm

Evaluation & the Health Professions:
http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=9864

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions:
http://www.jcehp.com/

Medical Education:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/med/

Medical Education Online:
http://www.med-ed-online.org/

Medical Teacher:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0142159X.html

Teaching and Learning in Medicine:
http://edaff.siumed.edu/tlm/

Medical Decision Making:

http://www.sagepub.co.uk/frame.html?http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0357.html

In addition, there are many other education journals that are not specific to medicine. Some of these include:

Educational Research and Evaluation:
http://www.szp.swets.nl/szp/frameset.htm?url=%2Fszp%2Fjournals%2Fer.htm

Educational Research:
http://www.aera.net/pubs/er/

Instructional Science:
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0020-4277

New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jtoc?ID=86011352

New Directions for Teaching and Learning:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jtoc?ID=86011233

Teaching and Teacher Education:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0742051X

If you are interested in some of this later group, you may also want to check out: http://www.fhs.usyd.edu.au/teaching/journals.htm. This later website, produced at the University of Sydney Australia has a large list of other education related journals.

Medical Education Resources

 

For those of us looking to improve our knowledge and skills as educators, there are numerous offerings. From great websites to full degree programs, just about anything you are looking for exists out there somewhere. Since it would be impossible to make a list of all such offerings we have not even tried.

Instead, we have created a list of sites and programs based on trying to answer a few key questions:

1. What are my options if I want to do an education-related degree?

2. What are my options if I want to complete extra coursework/diploma/certificate
but not a full degree?

3. Are there any electronic discussion groups/listservs for people interested in medical or dental education?

4. I'm particularly interested in the use of technology in education, where can should I look?

Education-related degree

 

1. University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

http://cores33webs.mede.uic.edu/dme/warp/index.html#

http://www.uic.edu/depts/grad/courses/mhpe.shtml

The UIC Graduate College offers a Masters in Health Professions Education (MHPE)as a means of providing the training necessary to produce effective leaders in health professions education. Acknowledging a wide diversity in educational and professional backgrounds, the MHPE offers some flexibility for candidates to design a curriculum that fits their needs and interests.

The program encourages the use of the professional's home institution as a laboratory for the application of practical educational and managerial concepts. The non-traditional format allows professionals, especially those from out-of-state, to pursue their degrees while keeping full-time jobs. Features of the MHPE include: educational leadership; non-traditional format; cross-section of health professions; work-study curriculum; and an interdisciplinary approach.

2. University of Dundee

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/meded/courses/courses.htm#

The University of Dundee in offers four levels of studies in medical education, including a masters degree in medical education. Most participants who study at Dundee do so via distance learning.

The courses at Dundee offer: an introduction to education for the healthcare professional, an overview of key issues related to education; the oppportunity for greater depth study in an area of education; recognition for experience and training gained in the field of education; and introduction to research in medical education.

3. University of Maastricht

http://www.unimaas.nl/default.asp?template=werkveld.htm&id=7QB670UVUNDK0707JV57&taal=en

The University of Maastricht in the offers a Masters in Health Professions Education (MHPE). MHPE students at Maastricht are international and multi-disciplinary. Maastricht University is an internationally renowned centre of educational innovation. Its educational philosophy stresses active learning, interdisciplanarity, relevance to professional practice, and frequent assessment.

Maastricht University has unique expertise in three areas: the design and implementation of problem-based learning modules, the acquisition of professionally-relevant skills through systematic training; and the use of innovative methods for student assessment. Moreover, its has gained world-wide recognition for its research programme of health professions education.

4. Cardiff University

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/pgmde/medical_education/mscdip_me/index.htm

Cardiff University in is an international centre for courses in medical education promoting excellence in teaching and learning for health professionals. In addition to a Postgraduate Diploma Program, Cardiff offers a Masters (MSc) in Medical Education.

Cardiff University offers: modular, design and part-time options to meet individual needs, a large, multi-disciplinary lecturing staff, course design and delivery emphasizing principles of application of theory through reflection and participative methods, and assessment tasks linked to educational practice.

5. University of Cincinnati

http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/ed/clinical/grad/masters/default.htm

An online Master's Degree program in medical education (MEd)was developed as a joint project between the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Education. The program is designed to provide advanced education to health care professional in the area of medical teaching and learning. It emphasizes adult learning, curriculum and teaching methods, medical evaluation, and research.

6. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT)

http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/

OISE/UT is one of the largest and most research-intensive faculties of education in North America . Although their training is not specifically oriented towards medical education, they do offer a Masters of Education (MEd).

Coursework, Diploma, Certificate

1. Harvard Medical School - Harvard Macy Institute

http://www.harvardmacy.org/default.asp

The Harvard Macy Institute delivers continuing healthcare education programs designed to instruct faculty educators in the health professions in methods for translating their knowledge and capabilities into organization-wide improvements. The Institute is committed to the cross-fertilization of ideas among all faculty involved in healthcare education. Through its programs, the Macy Institute offers a lifelong membership in a global community of leaders, scientists and educators transforming healthcare education at the local level.

2. Stanford University - Stanford Faculty Development Center

http://sfdc.stanford.edu/

Each year, the Faculty Development Center at Stanford University offers, to a small number of medical faculty, training as Clinical Teaching seminar facilitators. The one-month training program provides participants with background knowledge and seminar leadership skills required to deliver a series of eight, 2-hour seminars to their colleagues and to residents. Extensive opportunities to practice teaching skills are provided.

3. Memorial University - Centre for Collaborative Health Professional Education

http://www.med.mun.ca/cchpe/activities/diploma.htm

Memorial University 's Centre for Collaborative Health Professional Education and Faculty of Education have developed a Graduate Diploma in Post-Secondary Studies (Health Professional Education). This Graduate Diploma will help health professionals develop their skills as teachers and leaders in educational program design, development, evaluation, and administration. The Diploma is designed for teachers, preceptors, educational administrators, and others with teaching responsibilities within the health professions.

Electronic Discussion Groups (Listservs)

1. Dr-ED: An Electronic Discussion Group for Medical Educators.

http://http://www.omerad.msu.edu/DR-ED/
E-mail Contact: mavis@msu.edu

Description: This listserv is sponsored by the Office of Medical Education Research and Development (OMERAD) at the College of Human Medicine , Michigan State University . Dr-ED was developed in order to: promote discussion and problem-solving of issues related to medical education, to facilitate networking among colleagues who share common interests or expertise related to medical education, and to provide an electronic forum for disseminating information about resources related to medical education development and research interests.

Dr-ED is open to anyone involved in medical education. Messages posted to Dr-ED should be limited to discussions and information related to medical education.

2. Med-ED: A Medical Education-related Software Listserv.

E-mail Contact: owner-med-ed@aamcinfo.aamc.org

Description: This is a public, unmoderated listserv to facilitate communication among developers and users of software for medical education -- undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education -- to serve as a vehicle for exchange of ideas concerning computer curricula and curriculum development methods, authoring tools, infrastructure/technical needs, and criteria and methods for evaluation of course materials that are delivered electronically. Messages will have the subject prefix 'med-ed.'

3. Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR).

Web address: https://mailman.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbpr

Description: The CBPR e-mail community was created through a partnership between Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and the Toronto-based Wellesley Central Health Corporation in order to serve the growing network of people involved and interested in CPBR and other types of community-academic research partnerships. The goals of this listserv are to provide a resource for sharing knowledge and experience and to contribute to strenghtening the field of CBPR, thereby, ultimately improving the health of communities.

CBPR welcomes people from community organizations, colleges and universities, public and private funding agencies, decision makers and policy makers, and other to subscribe.

Health Education Assets Library

The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library of freely accessible, web-based multimedia teaching materials. HEAL began in 2000 as a joint project between the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the University of Utah Spencer C. Eccles Health Sciences Library , and the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.

HEAL provides access to over 30,000 teaching images, videos, animations, presentations, and audio files that support healthcare education, predominantly undergraduate medical education.

http://www.healcentral.org/services/servicesAAMC.jsp

The HEAL database is completely open and may be searched by anyone. HEAL materials may be downloaded and inserted into PowerPoint presentations, delivered in lecture halls, printed out, or placed on websites. As a digital library, HEAL allows faculty to supplement and enhance their teaching with compelling multimedia materials.

The 'Slice of Life' Meeting

Slice of Life 2005: 17th Meeting for Health Sciences Multimedia Developers, Educators, and Purveyors.

Date: June 16-18, 2005.
Location: Doubletree Hotel, Portland, Oregon .

Web address: http://slice.utah.edu
E-mail contact: smith.l@gsm.com

Conference focus: The Slice of Life holds an annual meeting at which a small group of multimedia educators and developers gather each year to explore and share ideas about using technology in health science education.

The Med-ED Listserv

Med-ED: A Medical Education-related Software Listserv.

E-mail Contact: owner-med-ed@aamcinfo.aamc.org

Description: This is a public, unmoderated listserv to facilitate communication among developers and users of software for medical education -- undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education -- to serve as a vehicle for exchange of ideas concerning computer curricula and curriculum development methods, authoring tools, infrastructure/technical needs, and criteria and methods for evaluation of course materials that are delivered electronically. Messages will have the subject prefix 'med-ed.'

Keeping Up to Date

Accessing the Medical Education Literature

For many of us, keeping up-to-date used to mean purchasing a subscription to our favourite journal(s) and maybe a weekly or monthly trip to the library where we could peruse the table of contents of some of the other journals in our areas of interest. This latter activity was however very time consuming and was often limited by our library’s subscriptions. Although the World Wide Web and e-mail may have changed that for some, for many of us the information overload of these resources and our own ignorance has led to much frustration and wasted time trying to develop strategies to cope with the new electronic realities. In addition, for many of us, our primary training was not in medical education and we are still “blissfully” unaware of all of the resources available to the inquiring medical education mind.

The purpose of this article is to help you manage some of these problems. The discussion will address five questions:

1. What are the main medical education journals and where do I find them?
2. How can I get the different journals to e-mail me their tables of contents?
3. Once I find an article that I am interested in what are my options?
4. Wow, there are so many…how do I keep up?
5. How can I keep track of those articles that I want to be able to pull up for quick reference?

The full article (Goldszmidt M. Accessing the medical education literature. THE NEWSLETTER OF THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION. 2003;13(3):1-5.)
can be found at
http://www.came-acem.ca/Newsletters/Volume%2013-3/Goldszmidt%2013.3.pdf

Scholarly Articles of Interest

 

Below are links to some scholarly articles which we feel may be of value to medical/dental education researchers.
GAMES extends its gratitude to the journals Medical Education and Academic Medicine, journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, for granting us access to these important articles.

Bordage & Dawson (2003), "Experimental study design and grant writing in eight steps and 28 questions."

Bordage & Dawson (2003)

Bordage (2001), "Reasons reviewers reject and accept manuscripts: The strengths and weaknesses in medical education reports."

Bordage (2001)

 Teaching 

Health Education Assets Library

The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library of freely accessible, web-based multimedia teaching materials. HEAL began in 2000 as a joint project between the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the University of Utah Spencer C. Eccles Health Sciences Library , and the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.

HEAL provides access to over 30,000 teaching images, videos, animations, presentations, and audio files that support healthcare education, predominantly undergraduate medical education.

http://www.healcentral.org/services/servicesAAMC.jsp

The HEAL database is completely open and may be searched by anyone. HEAL materials may be downloaded and inserted into PowerPoint presentations, delivered in lecture halls, printed out, or placed on websites. As a digital library, HEAL allows faculty to supplement and enhance their teaching with compelling multimedia materials.

Are You Interested in Submitting Materials to HEAL?

HEAL has recently entered into a partnership with the AAMC in order to populate HEAL with additional resources, to promote HEAL's use among medical school faculty, and to develop a peer-review process for materials hosted by HEAL.

Anyone may submit materials to HEAL for peer review. The process for evaluating HEAL content follows the traditional scholarly model for peer review. Please visit HEAL's website for more details on the review process.

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